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Friday, 18 December 2009
Camping night out
Another comedian at the Live Theatre tempted us to go on a little Christmas night out at the Live Theatre again, battling the blizzards and minus temperatures. We were thoroughly entertained by Jon Richardson who looks like Gino D'Acampo's brother (not that I've met his brother). He presents comedy shows on BBC Radio 6, has supported Alan Carr and been on Have I Got News For You. We had a table right at the front of the stage but he was probably frightened to pick on us, so instead chose a few others in the audience.The first half was more of a funny chat and it turned out that the whole audience thought he was camp. But what would you do if he asked you to cheer if you think he's camp? Even if he was butch, had a bull terrier on a lead and a huge tattoo on his forehead you would cheer. Actually come to think of it, that sounds camp anyway. Jesus, I don't know what camp is anymore, I've even just cocked my leg as I said that, cheer if you think I'm camp. No wonder he looks like Gino D'ACAMPO.
The second half was funnier again as he did a set he won an award for in Edinburgh. He talks about his life as a single man, his weird thoughts and observations. One included an old couple on a train who were forced to sit apart from each other. After a while Jon couldn't help noticing that the man reached across to his wife, and slapped her head very hard, then nonchalantly carried on reading. He reckons that if you can still play games like that and laugh about it, you've got is sussed. So I'm off to slap the girlfriend...
Labels: comedy
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Not much of an impression
Can you remember that impressionist from the telly? Us older but good looking generation will remember Mike Yarwood but I'm talking about Alistair McGowan. He's now known more for his green campaigning at Heathrow rather than his old TV series, The Big Impression. The girlfriend and I went along to see him perform at his show and although some of his impressions were good and local (Brendan Foster, Steve Cram, Gazza, Shearer), the gags were pretty poor. I think he's obsessed about football as most of his act was based around it. He revived the impression industry some time ago but it's gone stale again, maybe we need someone else who's more of an all rounder - like Rob Brydon. He ended with his best known impersonation of Dot Cotton who transforms into Harold Steptoe. Overall though it was pretty poor, my girlfriend was even more disappointed, especially later when I did my elephant impression. Monday, 12 October 2009
A posh bloke in the toon
It can't always be up to the man to make his lady laugh so I took my lady to see the comedian John Gordillo at the weekend with his show called Fu*konomics. He might've just been a bit too posh for Newcastle but he had moments that were very funny, especially his story about his Spanish father who insisted on telling his 7 year old Grandson that Willy Wonker's Chocolate factory would not survive with Charlie running it, what with the union problems, umpa lumpas and the capitalist system. Even funnier moments were at crucial points in his stories where someones phone went off on two different occasions. By then we were on to our second bottle of wine so even my own jokes were funny, ask my girlfriend.Labels: comedy
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
The willy contender
Had to take a picture of this in an Asian supermarket. My girlfriend laughed loud, the word Fu-Fu means a lot more to ladies, a nickname for the erm....well you know. Some girls called them 'Flower' too so imagine my surprise when the two words were almost put together! It's a staple food of Africa; the flour, that is.Labels: comedy
Monday, 30 March 2009
He's not married to Sally...
This weekend it was the turn of the Live Theatre where we went to support another local comedian, Gavin Webster. We've seen him before, but this time he was much more mellow I thought. He did a lot of local gags which were very funny, including geordie roadsigns and daft short one-liner songs on his ukulele. I reckon he has spurts of genius like his panda routine where he ponders about how extinct they really are, and these are just enough to make you want more. He's done a few things on the telly in his time so watch out, he could be the next geordie voice you hear aside from Ant & Dec or the Big Brother fella.Wednesday, 18 March 2009
True Comic Relief
He's popular, talented, really funny, does great impressions, can sing, can dance (well a brilliant Shakin' Stevens impression at least). Yes I know, it sounds like a description of me, but it's not. It's the superb Rob Brydon who made us constantly laugh, on stage last night. His humour, quick wit and audience banter was brilliant. He's number 1 in the charts with the comic relief song, and finished the night doing this in a funny way of course. He went into the audience and tried to get his leg back onto the stage but kept falling back. A lady in the front row tried to help with a hand round his buttocks. I tried to get a photo of the cheeky incident. You can just make out Rob after being touched up at the front of the stage.Thursday, 29 January 2009
So here's to you Mrs...
We gave the small theatre a go last night, watching an adaptation of the oscar winning film, The Graduate. They’d picked a young Dustin Hoffman look-a-like who played the part of the 21 year old really well. Mrs Robinson was very funny and quite convincing, even when she got her kit off (honest!), a naked woman on stage, I nearly choked on my nuts. The Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack was used inbetween scenes which brought back memories of when I watched the film (I was very young though). The overall performance was quite captivating (if you managed to ignore the poor American accent from Dusty Bin’s dad). Driving home in the eery fog, we couldn’t get that well known song out our heads…..so you’ll be singing it now….Monday, 19 January 2009
Sarah's Not Nice
Well we didn't have to wait long to get tickets for South Shields comedian Sarah Millican, I got them for a surprise Christmas present for that beautiful lady in my life and we went along at the weekend. She was absolutely great again, with her 'Not Nice' set with jokes about her divorce and life after. We got to hear her new material too which was just as good. I think Sarah is something special on the comedy circuit at the moment, great comedy timing and I reckon she will go far. Labels: comedy
Friday, 12 December 2008
Shields lasses win awards
Great to see that local South Shields comedian Sarah Millican is starting to make an impact into the national comedy circuit. We went to see her some time ago, you can read about it here. She's just won best newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, that's a big achievement. Look out for her, starting with an appearance on Have I Got News For You in December. Hopefully it won't be too long before she does a gig near her home town and I can go along.
Labels: comedy
Monday, 1 December 2008
He's a count...ry boy...
Last night ended up being such a good one, seeing Rich Hall the American comedian, writer and musician. He's often seen on QI, Have I got News For You and performed alongside Jack Dee. He did stand-up in his own ironic style for the first half then stormed the place in the second half with his character based (Otis Lee Crenshaw) pi$$-take out of country songs, playing the keyboard along with his deliberately sombre band. He won an award for this and it's easy to see why. His songs and part improvised songs about women, whisky and members of the audience were pure genius and hilarious. We had such a good night, would see him all over again as long as we can sit somewhere where there wasn't a constant smell of sulphurhuric logs from some fat blokes ass.
Labels: comedy
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Carr not in top gear
We expected to see a great show when we went along to see Jimmy Carr, the Joke Technician but he just didn't deliver. The funniest people there were the audience with their weird comments and questions. Jimmy kept asking "Have you got any questions?", as if he'd ran out of material and the audience kept asking him "Are you gay?". They must've been getting mixed up with his brother, Alan.
Labels: comedy
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Comic Black Books
What a great night out it was to go and see Irish comedian Dylan Moran. Genius comedy, a look at the world, relationships and life in general. He wrote and starred in the sitcom Black Books which was just as good. Dylan ate chocolate and sipped on Rose wine while doing his act. What a great job, if only I was funny and could get away with drinking Rose in front of a packed audience. Labels: comedy
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
BiG lasses
For a long time, I've tried and failed to find this favourite photo of mine that I had for years then lost. In a shop in York, my girlfriend was browsing through hundreds of photo's on the wall and called me over laughing her big head off at one in particular. I couldn't believe it. Big glasses are not just about Deidre Barlow.Labels: comedy
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Merton, I've got news for you, get some new chums
Monday night I went to see Paul Merton with his 'Improv Chums'. Nomally I wouldn't go anywhere with Chums in the title. Almost the same as the set I watched at the Sage with Phil Jupitas in March but not as funny. That large fella Mike McShane from Whose Line was there. My ice cream was nice but the man to my left smelt, if you're reading this, get a shower you tramp.
Labels: comedy
Friday, 14 March 2008
Phoenix night out
Continuing the comedy theme, went to see Dave Spikey last night (Jerry from Phoenix nights), an old style club comedian with real funny stories, sayings and observations. He reckons he convinced his old slow school friend that he should become a binman as they only work one day a week. He ended the night playing us ridiculous lyrics we all know from popular songs but took the pi$$ out of them. Very funny man.
Labels: comedy
Monday, 10 March 2008
Girls can be funny too
To mark the end of the Newcastle Gateshead Comedy Festival I went along to a couple of shows. The best one was the improvisation set with 5 people including Phil Jupitas and Steve Frost. A bit like Whose Line Is It Anyway, with audience participation, this was brilliant and very funny. The last sketch was manic where they did voices for each other while onboard a ship (not a real one). The second show, local comics including Gavin Webster, the award-winning Sarah Millican and Richard Morton performed to a small audience. Sarah came out best with her dry humour, a girl to look out for. Girls can be funny too, they scare some men though.
Labels: comedy
Monday, 3 March 2008
My ar$e, chase me
Can you remember Duncan Norvelle? If I said 'Chase Me', you might remember this as his catchphrase. A very camp comedian who appeared with Ricky Tomlinson (plays Jim Royle in The Royle Family) who we went to see at the weekend. I used to cringe at Duncan on TV but he was actually very funny, even when getting a huge bald builder up from the audience and making him skip across the stage. Ricky was also good with his down to earth funny stories from the past. Some woman behind me had a ridiculous laugh that sounded like a high pitched car starting and that made us laugh more. A great night out though.
Labels: comedy
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Dancing With Elves
This is very funny, take a look at my mother and uncles dancing as small green little people - http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9632202520.
There's some smaller elves again: my cousins, nephew and neice - http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9632380417
There's some smaller elves again: my cousins, nephew and neice - http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9632380417
Labels: comedy
Thursday, 15 November 2007
Frankie says laugh
The normally brilliant comedian Frank Skinner wasn't so brilliant as I'd expected watching him live at the local theatre. I'm suprised by the random words that some thick people in the audience shout out though. Frank once said "A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by its own farts."
Labels: comedy
Friday, 21 September 2007
Sean Hughes 10 years on
Good to see comedian Sean Hughes back on tour, went to see him performing in the same place I went to see him about 10 years ago. He looks the same, much like me I suppose.
Labels: comedy
Sunday, 16 September 2007
Doormen don't have a sense of humour
How dare the doorman tell us to be quiet at the comedy club the other night, aren't you supposed to laugh! The time before that, one of the comedians took the huff because no-one was laughing!
Labels: comedy
Monday, 11 June 2007
Boss reaches 40
BIG SURPRISE for my (ex)boss, Mik, who is 40 years old on Mon June 11th. You must see his video-song, it's on You Tube doing very well too. Happy Birthday you old old man, get a haircut.
Labels: comedy
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